Life, 1928-06-14 · page 4 of 42
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This page (June 11, 1928) contains primarily **advertising and reader content** rather than political satire. The main illustration shows a couple in evening wear with jewelry, accompanying a jewelry advertisement encouraging gift-giving. The caption emphasizes jewelry's sentimental value over time. The right column features reader submissions: "An Answer to Mr. Grantland Rice's 'The Fettered Eagle'" is a poem responding to Rice's sports commentary, "I Am Determined" describes a boxer's training regimen, and "The Club Grouch" lists humorous club complaints using a fill-in-the-blank format. These are typical **Life magazine reader participation features**—lighthearted commentary on contemporary life rather than sharp political satire. The content reflects 1920s concerns: boxing, social clubs, and consumer goods.
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Give her jewelry... Its appeal becomes more precious with the memories of each passing year. Consult pour Tewelern NATIONAL JEWELERS PUBLICITY ASSOCIATION An Answer to Mr. Grantland Rice’s ‘“The Fettered Eagle” Why should you scoff at crowds who jostle and shove and clutch, And cluster about a god, trying to se or touch? : Why do you say they stare to sce if his wings are true? They are not seeing wings; they stare at a dream come true. | Maybe in their rude hearts his bravery woke a song | That sounded above the dirge for dreams that were dead too long; Doesn’t the voiceless mute sigh when the tenor sings? Pity the earthbound clod who touches the eagle's wings. Vaughan Poppe. I Am Determined I Have never underrated anybody. | look forward to a real fight, and I might add that I fear no man in the world at my weight; I am ready. It’s all in how you |train. During the past month I have run four miles each day. Each day | have shadow-boxed for an hour in order to perfect a stiff, straight left jab and a punishing right cross; moreover, | have skipped rope for an hour so as to put some much-needed springiness in my legs. I have also practiced a crouch, a weaving, swaying motion of the body, and a bobbing of the head that will per- mit me to roll with punches. I have gone in for weight-lifting and wrestling, too, because they are of immense value in developing a technique for tying up your man in the clinches. I have also done some high-jumping, mixing it up now and then with a little brisk leap-frogging. Perhaps this will be my last fight. Who knows? All I know 1s that | am determined to enjoy the Tunney-Heeney bout without interference from the other forty-dollar-seat holders. Tup. The Club Grouch “You used to be able to get-— — in this club, but not any more; not with this House Committee we've got now.” *A decent steak.....Hot twast.....4 little thing like a two-cent stamp. . . . .Commoa courtesy.....Enough bread A cake soap.....Warm plates Intelligent service. .... The evening papers... Onion soup. .+..Writing paper.....Coffce that tastes like coffee. .... Quick action on complaints Cheese with your pic..... A telephone message. A good cigar.....A drink, A. H. F. Aw Iowa judge has held that a radio is a musical instrument. Then we had an evening last week that was plainly in contempt of court —Nation’s Business. LIFE: Published Weekly by Life Publishing Company, 598 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. Subscription, $5.00. Vol. 91, No. 2380, 14, 1928. Ent'd as 2nd Class Matter, June 8, 1883, a1 New York Post Office, uoder act of March 3, 1870. Pristed ia U.S Ay’ bar'd as Sod Glass Marie at Sos Post fice Dept. le Copyright 1928, Life Pub. Co.,in U-8., England axd 7 z British Possessions. comicbooks.com